Sentences with phrase «warming effects»

Some climate change deniers make statements like «carbon dioxide is harmless, you're breathing it now,» as if that somehow disproved the disturbing warming effects that scientists have found.

This leads Prof Curry to say the IPCC's models are «incomplete», because they do not adequately account for natural factors such as long - term ocean temperature cycles and a decline in solar output, which have suppressed the warming effects of CO2.

The latest research suggests that it amounts to about 4 percent of the «radiative forcing,» which is the fancy term scientists use to talk about the overall warming effects of greenhouse gases.

And the warming effects of CO2 are, according to Arrhenius, a sharply diminishing return, anyway.

And by that, I don't mean computer models — I use computer models, and they are totally invalid at prediction — and I don't mean reports of «warming effects» unless you can show the mechanism that definitively links the cause to the effect, and shows that CO2 can be the only cause.

But don't forget the distinction between the cooling effects of volcanic SO2 into the stratosphere versus the warming effects of CO2 into the troposphere.

From the data in this post it seems like uncontrolled fossil fuel burning is actually a net global coolant due to the sulfates, so it seems that this would act as a break on CO2 based warming effects.

But over the last decade or so, glaciologists have come to appreciate that ice sheets are not gigantic lumps of «static» ice; warming effects can cause them to act erratically and to move much faster than simple models suggest.

The cooling and warming effects have not yet been properly quantified and will most likely turn out to be significant.

Bill says he's got a paper in press about warming effects on lake life, so I suspect he does know a number of «peer - rev'd» similar studies — they may be warmists, but what matters is nailing any details of their evidence that shows bias etc..

Not only that, but they give it power over El Nino by pontificating that «Pinatubo climate forcing was stronger than the opposite warming effects of either the El Nino event or anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the period 1991 - 93.»

I'm not capable of making much of my reading of the graph, but it suggests that the cooling and warming effects of vulcanism are not thoroughly understood.

«Almost everywhere you see the warming effects have a negative affect on wheat and there is a similar story for corn as well.

First and foremost is I have yet to see a good discussion on how Global Warming effects your observation of a Northward movement of the apparent circulation of the ITCZ heat energy and water vapor distribution.

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Considering that the mechanism of the «natural AMO» is so poorly understood, there's no justification for immediately blaming increases in hurricane activity on it while entirely ignoring global warming effects on sea surface temperatures (and atmospheric moisture), for which very clear mechanisms do exist.

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This endless supply of new oil can be used for many products such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics and solvents without the global warming effects of petroleum.

To persist with citing GWP over a century is misleading and results in the warming effects of CH4 emissions being understated.

You can even go one better — if you ignore the fact that there are negative forcings in the system as well (cheifly aerosols and land use changes), the forcing from all the warming effects is larger still (~ 2.6 W / m2), and so the implied sensitivity even smaller!

What is the balance of the cooling effects of reflectivity versus warming effects of insulation at night?

What is the best guess of the experts regarding the balance of the cooling versus warming effects of increasing clouds / water vapor?

Let's see... many models show that aerosols could have been artificially keeping the world's average surface temperature cooler by about 3 - 5 degrees C from 1900 - 2000 --(sulfate aerosols certainly have some certifiable cooling effects cancelling out the warming effects of CO2).

For example, climate models seem to indicate more pronounced warming in the Arctic and sub-Arctic happening prior to warming effects seen at lower latitudes.

Data from satellite observations «suggest that greenhouse models ignore negative feedback produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects» of human carbon dioxide emissions.

If the warming effects of CO2 emission from ff were essentially neutralized after the 1940s, then one would expect that a similar neutralization would have been in effect prior to 1940.

That is an argument for a bit of cooling due to natural cycles overcoming most of the warming effects of rapidly rising CO2.

To begin with, the former seems unlikely because the global warming effects of CO2 are unlikely to become manifest right away (the correlation between differenced variables, which Ladbury uses, only pertains to same - year relationships).

Global warming effects are accumulating, which gives great power to their results over time.

So, our warming effects are more than observed warming.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/quikscat-20071001.html In other words, we read in the press that this melt was caused by global warming effects exceeding projections, but it would be more factual to say we are seeing natural effects superimposed on global warming effects over a pretty short time frame over which projections aren't specifically made.

Costa Rica's weather is very unpredictable, especially now due to global warming effects.

Students explore the warming effects of the sun and engineering.

It's an invigorating yet relaxing ritual and as we move into the colder months, you'll welcome its warming effects.

1) Soil respiration, respiration - photosynthesis interactions, and soil warming effects on belowground processes and greenhouse gas emissions in forest and tundra.

It is challenging to see how volcanism could cause an ice age, since its cooling effects would have to be stronger than, and to outlast, its warming effects.

In regions where the effects of these circulation variations are similar to global warming effects, new extremes are observed.

Because of the climate record is still short, more work needs to be done to determine how much of the warming results from natural climate swings and how much from the warming effects of carbon dioxide released by the burning of fossil fuels, Dr. Steig said.

The Stefan - Boltzmann law does not take into consideration the feedback warming effects of the green - house gases, so it can not be used to study the real earth climate.

(C) potential metrics and approaches for quantifying the climatic effects of black carbon emissions, including its radiative forcing and warming effects, that may be used to compare the climate benefits of different mitigation strategies, including an assessment of the uncertainty in such metrics and approaches; and

Emissions of both sulfur and black carbon will go down with the switch, which means that the power industry will lose small short - term cooling and warming effects, in addition to gaining the larger long - term cooling effect of lower CO2 emissions.

The boats produce other short - lived pollutants, such as sulfur oxides and black carbon, which have cooling and warming effects, respectively.

Scientists knew about the warming effects of greenhouse gases, but proponents of global cooling argued that greenhouse warming would be more than offset by Earth's orbital changes.

This comparative analysis of the atmospheric and ground - level temperature readings allowed Kalnay and Cai to isolate the warming effects of agricultural land - use changes and urban sprawl.

And the real concern that at that point you start to get not just severe global warming effects, but you start to see kind of an irreversible trend.

In a paper published this month in Geophysical Research Letters, Lovejoy concludes that a natural cooling fluctuation during this period largely masked the warming effects of a continued increase in human - made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Interestingly, some scientists argue that without the cooling effect of major volcanic eruptions such as El Chichn and Mount Pinatubo, global warming effects caused by human activities would have been far more substantial.

Prior to this study, «the understanding of permafrost feedbacks to climate change had been limited by a lack of data examining warming effects on both vegetation and permafrost carbon simultaneously,» said Dr. Natali.

That adjustment would negate the warming effects of 44 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the researchers report in an upcoming issue of Climatic Change.

These sulphur containing particles reflect sunlight and help form brighter clouds, creating a global effect that temporarily diminishes the warming effects of carbon dioxide.